The Great War in post-memory literature and film / edited by Martin Löschnigg and Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Löschnigg, Martin, editor.

Sokołowska-Paryż, Marzena, editor.

Series:

Media and cultural memory ; 18.

Media and cultural memory/medien und kulturelle erinnerung ; volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.

World War, 1914-1918.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Collective memory and literature.

World War, 1914-1918--Motion pictures and the war.

War and motion pictures.

War films--History and criticism.

War films.

Collective memory and motion pictures.

Physical Description:

vii, 459 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]

Summary:

The First World War has remained the subject of prose fiction, drama, and film across nations. This volume provides a comprehensive international survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media. It addresses the role of these media in preserving and (re)shaping the memory of the war, emphasizing the historical, socio-political, gender-oriented and post-colonial contexts of its cultural representations. This interdisciplinary series addresses the relation between media and cultural memory. Its publications study how media construct, store, and disseminate memory. The series' focus is on different media and technologies, such as text and image, the cinema and the new digital media, on transmediality, intermediality, and remediation as well as on the social (and increasingly transnational and transcultural) contexts of mediated memory. The aim of the series is to provide a vibrant international platform for research and scholarly exchange in the field of media and memory, studies. Manuscripts submitted to the series are peer reviewed by expert referees. Book jacket.

Contents:

Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz and Martin Löschnigg: Introduction: "Have you forgotten yet?"

"Entrenched" Perspectives: The Legacy of the Great War. Margot Norris: Revisiting All Quiet on the Western Front

Caroline Perret: Wilfred Owen and His War Poetry in Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale and Regeneration/Behind the Lines

Ross J. Wilson: It Still Goes On: Trauma and the Memory of the First World War

Marlene A. Briggs: Working Through the Working-Class War: The Battle of the Somme in Contemporary British Literature by Alan Sillitoe and Ted Hughes

Paul Skrebels: A Poisonous Paradox: Representations of Gas Warfare in Post-Memory Films of the Great War

Ty Hawkins: The Great War, the Iraq War, and Postmodern America

Kevin Powers: The Yellow Birds and the Radical Isolation of Today's U.S. Veterans

The Challenge of Form: How to "Remember" the Great War. Thomas F. Schneider: The Two "All Quiets": Representations of Modern Warfare in the Film Adaptations of Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues

Marek Paryz: "I shall lie broken against this broken earth": William March's Company K on the Screen

Michael Paris: The Great War and British Docudrama: The Somme, My Boy Jack and Walter's War

Martin Löschnigg: "Like dying on a stage": Theatricality and Remembrance in Anglo-Canadian Drama on the First World War

David Malcolm:The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction

Phil Fitzsimmons and Daniel Reynaud: Comics/Graphic Novels/Bandes Dessinées and the Representation of the Great War

Jean Anderson: What Price Justice? French Crime Fiction and the Great War

Identities: The Great War and National Post-Memories. Sherrill Grace: Remembering The Wars

Hanna Teichler: Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road: Transcultural (Post-)Memory and Identity in Canadian World War I Fiction

Christina Spittel: Nostalgia for the Nation? The First World War in Australian Novels of the 1970s and 1980s

Clare Rhoden: Even More Australian: Australian Great War Novels in the Twenty-First Century

Daniel Reynaud: National Versions of the Great War: Modern Australian Anzac Cinema

Richard Slotkin: The "Lost Battalion" of the Argonne and the Origin of the Platoon Movie: Race, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of American Nationality

Maurizio Cinquegrani: Place, Time and Memory in Italian Cinema of the Great War

Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz: The Great War and the Easter Rising in Tom Phelan's The Canal Bridge: A Literary Response to the Politics of Commemoration in Ireland

Angela Brintlinger: The Great War through "Great October": 1914/1917 in Russian Memory

Interrogations: Cross-Cultural and Trans-Historical (Re) Interpretations of the Great War. Geert Buelens: They wouldn't end it with any of us alive, now would they?: The First World War in Cold War Era Films

Richard Smith: Post-Colonial Melancholia and the Representation of West Indian Volunteers in the British Great War Televisual Memory

Anne Samson: Fictional Accounts of the East Africa Campaign

Alicia Fahey: Voices From the Edge: De-Centering Master Narratives in Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers

Brigitte Johanna Glaser : Women and World War I: "Postcolonial" Imaginative Rewritings of the Great War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3110362902

9783110362909

OCLC:

887857176